Guide Photos of Major Phytoplankton Species in the Egyptian Waters of the Red Sea

This book is a guide photos for most of the recorded phytoplankton species that identified and classified by many workers at different areas in the Egyptian waters of the Red Sea and some surrounding habitats. These areas include the northern part of the Suez Gulf (studied by Nassar, 1994 and Nassar and Hamed, 2003), northern part of the Red Sea (El-Sherif and Abo El-Ezz, 2000 and Shams El-Din et al., 2005), western part of the Red Sea (Abel Rahman and Nassar, 2005 and Madkour et al., 2010), the Suez Canal (Deyab et al., 2004 and Nassar and Shams El-Din, 2006), western coast of the Suez Gulf (Nassar 2000 & 2007a and El-Naggar et al., 2002), the Gulf of Aqaba (Nassar 2007b and Al-Najjar et al., 2007). Generally, a checklist of the recorded phytoplankton species of the previous studies are collected and updated as the current, and the accepted names according to the different algal databases (Nassar and Khairy, 2014). These collected phytoplankton data were represented by about 207 phytoplankton classified as 45 genera of Bacillariophyceae (116 species), 15 genera of Dinophyceae (48 species), 11 genera of Chlorophyceae (20 species), nine genera (19 species) of Cyanophyceae, two genera of Euglenophyceae (three species) as well as one species of Silicoflagellates.
This guide photos represented about 177 of these species as recent and accepted names according to the different algal databases to help and facilitate the identification and classification of the major microalgal taxa in the Egyptian waters of the Red Sea and the surrounding habitats.